Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization new screenshots!

The new Sword Art Online game, Hollow Realization will be released on PS4 and PS Vita in October in Japan, and in November for North America and Europe. But today Bandai Namco released some new screenshots of the game, and boy does it look beautiful!

Bandai Namco released a bunch of stunning new screenshots for Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization wich will be released for the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita on October 27th in Japan, and November 8th for North America and Europe.

In this batch of screenshots, we see the NPC dark elf Kizmel. We also get a bit of backstory this time,that definitely fits the theme of NPCs that has been hinted at until now. The game inside the game, called Sword Art: Origin, seems to have a new "Death Game" in wich your NPC friends can actually die.

In the normal game, when an NPC dies, it returns to you after a while, but in Sword Art: Origin not only do they appear to have unique personalities, but when they die they don’t come back. They get instead replaced by a completely new NPC!

We also get a look at the Sword Skill Connect feature, that allows players to shorten the cooldown between skills, new quests, a new boss, and a look at the Abyss of the Priestess DLC mission.

Last, but not least, the game will get a large update by the end of the year, introducing new characters from Lost Song: Seven and Rain. It will come with new maps, story chapters and a PvP feature, adding twenty hours of story content.